Meanwhile, she extended remand of the trio – GCA president Chetan Desai, secretary Vinod Phadke and treasurer Akbar Mullah by three more days.

Public Prosecutor Poonam Bharne had pressed for seven-day police custody, stating that none of the three are cooperating with the investigation agency.

However Adv Subodh Kantak, counsel of the heavyweight accused, argued that they have been arrested illegally.

In fact he asked why police did not act on the complaint filed by all the three accused, which had alleged that some unknown persons had opened fake GCA bank account in the private bank misusing their names.

As per his argument, police should have acted on the complaint of his clients since they had filed it much before Vilas Desai filed the complaint against the trio.

Desai had filed the complaint alleging that the trio opened a fake bank account of GCA and deposited the BCCI’s TV subsidy of Rs 2.87 crore, which was later withdrawn by giving many more fictitious names.

Contrary to this, Chetan-Vinod-Akbar had filed a police complaint against unknown persons, claiming total ignorance over opening such a fake bank account.

Sources in the police however reveal that the lady bank manager of the private bank has already identified the three accused, who had personally come to open the account.